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| ‘ … for They Know Not What They Do'? Religion, Religions and Ethics as Conceptualized in Ara Norenzayan's Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict (2013) | ||
| 作者 | Schlieter, Jens |
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| 出處題名 | Religion |
| 卷期 | v.44 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2014 |
| 頁次 | 649 - 657 |
| 出版者 | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.tandf.co.uk/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Review symposium on Ara Norenzayan: Big Gods: how religion transformed cooperation and conflict (2013) Author affiliations Institute for the Science of Religion & Center for Global Studies, University of Berne, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern, Switzerland |
| 關鍵詞 | Big Gods; supernatural monitoring; prosocial religion; prosocial beliefs; Buddhism; Atheism |
| 摘要 | This contribution discusses the central argument in Norenzayan's Big Gods, that features of certain gods (and, especially, of God) as supernatural watchers, i.e., to be morally concerned, powerful, omniscient, and interventionist enabled individuals to cooperate more efficiently within their group or community. Although in recent psychological research there is compelling evidence for the prosocial function of religion within groups and traditions, the general theory of a causal relation between an evolutionary success for ‘beliefs in supernatural monitoring’ and certain religious traditions is less convincing. Problems relate to methodology (i.e., the neglect of religious organization, religious specialists, self-monitoring, and ethics), to the attribution of ‘religious’ agency on different levels of society and to the global history of religions and cultures without ‘Big Gods,’ e.g., Buddhism in South Asia. |
| ISSN | 0048721X (P); 10961151 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 610 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.01.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.12.16 |
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